Originally Mills Music Inc, available
through music@mueller-schade.com.
(This work was compressed to its present form from an original
four-movement Quintet for oboe and strings) Recording: CD: MDG 603 1126-2 and LP: Mercury SR 90499
(out of print)

American Serenade
for string orchestra.
Early 1940's. Duration 15'

fp (complete): September 1970, Washington; members of the
National Symphony c. AD (from the late 1950's onwards, the
two movements had each been performed separately on several
occasions by various US orchestras)

The Two Enchantments of Li
Tai Pe
two lyric scenes for baritone and small orchestra.
1957. Texts by the composer (No.l based on a story by Bela Balazs).
Duration 33'.

Dedication: 'Legend has it, that Li Tai Pe died while trying
to kiss the image of the moon on the surface of the water.
This piece is dedicated, with affection, to all whose phantasy
does encompass such gesture of tenderness'.

fp: 8 April 1958, Minneapolis Museum; John Langstaff (bar),
members of the Minneapolis SO c. AD

(The theme is taken from Kodaly's
String Quartet No.I, op.2. Dorati composed the largest share
ofthis work, namely the Introduction [which quotes from his
own Nocturne - Item 2 in this catalogue - as well as from works
by each of his collaborators and one by Matyas Seiber] and the
extended final I variation)

I. Lento, misterioso ('Strings
in the Earth and Air')
II. Tranquillo ('At that Hour when all things have repose')
III. Allegretto ('O cool is the valley now')
IV. Allegro ('Winds of May that dance on the sea')
V. Mesto ('Because your voice was at my side')
VI. Allegro agitato ('I hear an army')
Vll. Lento, misterioso ('Strings in the Earth and Air')

Schirmer, 1998

Night Music
for solo flute and small orchestra.
August 1968. Duration 22' 2

(The orchestral version - which
greatly elaborates the textures of the original - slightly lengthens
the instrumental portions of some songs, and considerably extends
the Prologue and especially the Envoi. In this version those
movements are unnumbered, and the remaining songs (Nos.2-10)
are accordingly renumbered I-IX)

M&S (MS hire), including voice/piano
reduction and English translation by the composer

Divertimento
for oboe and orchestra.
1976 (Solo part revised December 1985 - January 1986). Duration
25'

Bartók: Three Rondos on Folk Tunes Version
for string orchestra by AD. Dated '3-5.9.67' UE (hire) (Dorati's
arrangement presents these pieces in a different order to
the piano original, viz. Ill, I, II)